Need a place to crash? Well, you don’t need to have dozens of friends scattered around the world to find a place to rest your head. If you own a home, you can exchange your house for a week, a month, or maybe more. Homeowner or not, you can sign up with a program that …

According to a study by WSL Strategic Retail that was printed in Kiplinger’s, half of all consumers who earned more than 100,000 patronized a dollar store last year. Dollar General opened another 58 new stores last month alone, nearly 300 new ones this year. And the existing ones are doing record business. Sales are booming …

The results of a new global risk perception survey show that what people think is a risk and what is really a risk–statistically–are two very different things. This survey was conducted by a huge global PR firm that has very little interest in travel, but it shows the major disconnect between perception and reality. Here’s …

I mentioned in a previous post that airfares to Latin America have gotten dirt cheap over the past month. But all air routes are hurting for passengers these days, especially ones to Asia. Taking the prize for the most insane airfare deal lately has been American’s flights from New York to Tokyo for $349. No …

OK, so while you buy the “travel when others aren’t” idea in theory, maybe you’re just not willing to step out of our dangerous but familiar coccoon and into an unfamiliar frontier of SARS, terrorism, and flag burning. Well there’s a place for you too, and it’s not so far away. It’s called Latin America …